Frajzyngier Zygmunt, Curl Traci S. (Editors). Reciprocals: Forms and Functions

John Benjamins. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 2000. — xii, 204 p. — Includes subject index, author index, and language index. — (Typological Studies in Language, vol. 41). — ISBN 90-272-2940-6, 1-55619-654-7.The papers in the present volume make a double contribution to the problems of reciprocal constructions: They provide important descriptive data and they address theoretical issues. Thus they provide evidence that there is no schism between the descriptivist and the theoretical approach. The range of languages discussed, while not typologically representative, is nevertheless quite wide: English; Dutch; German; Greek; Polish; Nyulnyulan, African languages from all families; Oceanic; Halkomelem; Mandarin; and Yukaghir. The theoretical issues addressed in the papers are the semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories.Polysemy involving reflexive and reciprocal markers in African languages
Reciprocals without reflexives
Types of anaphoric Expressions: Reflexives and reciprocals
Reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Nyulnyulan languages
Reciprocal marking with deictic verbs come and go in Mandarin
Combinatory restrictions on Halkomelem reflexives and reciprocals
Reciprocals and set construal
Coding of the reciprocal function: Two solutions